Accessability and images.

[lilboidreamer]

I want Internet Explorer to ignore colors specified by web pages and
use a custom color scheme that I have set up. The problem is that if I
enable that option, certain or most images on common webpages I go to
seem to not load on me. Yet when I disable the option I get all my
images to show properly. Is there a way to ignore default color scheme
without having the images not load up whatsoever?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

How are you trying to do what you want? Are you using IE's Accessibilities
option to ignore colors specified on web pages and Windows settings for your
custom colors? A custom style sheet?

 

[lilboidreamer]

How are you trying to do what you want? Are you using IE's Accessibilities
option to ignore colors specified on web pages and Windows settings for your
custom colors? A custom style sheet?

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Jon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC USA
(e-mail address removed)






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Right now I'm using the Accessibilites option and doing the whole
ignore colors and windows settings. If you are recommending me to use
a custom style sheet it would be appreciated if you could teach me
some basic pointers about it since this is my first time messing
around with such settings. Such points I am referring to are text
color, background color, hyperlink (visted and unvisted) colors and
other concepts that you would recommend changing in order to achieve
what I'm looking for.

 

[lilboidreamer]

How are you trying to do what you want? Are you using IE's Accessibilities
option to ignore colors specified on web pages and Windows settings for your
custom colors? A custom style sheet?

--

Jon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC USA
(e-mail address removed)






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Right now I'm using the Accessibilites option and doing the whole
ignore colors and windows settings. If you are recommending me to use
a custom style sheet it would be appreciated if you could teach me
some basic pointers about it since this is my first time messing
around with such settings. Such points I am referring to are text
color, background color, hyperlink (visted and unvisted) colors and
other concepts that you would recommend changing in order to achieve
what I'm looking for. I'm currently looking on how to create css files
and am interested on how to manipulate text and background in general
(thinking possibly through global variables, not so sure through). So
any advice on how to manipulate text on any website just like how
windows has settings for text in general but put into css file would
be really helpful.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

This site has two downloadable example Custom Style Sheets, and directions
on how to use them with IE.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/ie6/css.aspx Download them to your
desktop, right click, choose Edit, and see how the format works. Try
changing a few variables and then try it with IE.

Or, here's a site that will help you prepare a CSS for IE online -
http://accessiblebookcollection.org/stylesheet/
The variables are limited to what they provide in the drop-down menus, but
it'll get you started.
Follow the instructions to prepare and then download your customized .css
file.

If you're really interested in what variables to use for colors of objects,
see -
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colors.asp
Also, many of the links in the left margin will take you to pages where you
have side-by-side examples of CSS code on the left, and it's output on the
right. You can change variables on the left and then click a button to see
the results. For example, this one on background colors:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-color
You can choose your colors by name or values.

Hope this is enough to get you started.

 

[lilboidreamer]

This site has two downloadable example Custom Style Sheets, and directions
on how to use them with IE.http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/ie6/css.aspx Download them to your
desktop, right click, choose Edit, and see how the format works. Try
changing a few variables and then try it with IE.

Or, here's a site that will help you prepare a CSS for IE online -http://accessiblebookcollection.org/stylesheet/
The variables are limited to what they provide in the drop-down menus, but
it'll get you started.
Follow the instructions to prepare and then download your customized .css
file.

If you're really interested in what variables to use for colors of objects,
see -http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colors.asp
Also, many of the links in the left margin will take you to pages where you
have side-by-side examples of CSS code on the left, and it's output on the
right. You can change variables on the left and then click a button to see
the results. For example, this one on background colors:http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-color
You can choose your colors by name or values.

Hope this is enough to get you started.

--

Jon R. Kennedy MS MVP/IE
Charlotte, NC USA
(e-mail address removed)








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Actually all this info was really helpful in learning about css,
especially the first link since I got to see a preview of the types of
variables that are used to manipulate the browser. It's obvious that
I'll be doing more research about this topic. If you could recommend
any good books I could buy about it, one as a beginner's guide for
ease and another for a more in-depth and detailed look into css would
be helpful. I'm currently in college learning up on basic programming
such as C++ and Java so I'll be ok with something like this. Once
again thank you for your help since I kept a constant watch on this
topic day after day and hopefully I could turn to you for further
assistance in the future.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I want Internet Explorer to ignore colors specified by web pages and
use a custom color scheme that I have set up. The problem is that if I
enable that option, certain or most images on common webpages I go to
seem to not load on me. Yet when I disable the option I get all my
images to show properly.

Certain or most? Could you give some specific examples?

Is there a way to ignore default color scheme
without having the images not load up whatsoever?

I don't understand why that option would have that effect,
unless it is washing out the color of the images.
E.g. similar to the way specifying a black background with black text
makes text "disappear".

In some cases where incompatible color schemes are used
you can improve their contrast by doing a Select All of the page
(e.g. pressing Ctrl-a). Does that make the "missing" images more apparent?


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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[lilboidreamer]

I want Internet Explorer to ignore colors specified by web pages and

Certain or most? Could you give some specific examples?

JPEGs and GIFs I have no problems with loading onto the screen. Though
there's an exception with PNG files the browser would not load it up
unless I disable the ignore colors option. Its when I disable the
option, the browser would then load up those certain images (mostly
png files) like if I have refreshed the browser. There are other
exceptions to this matter such as images that are specially embedded
into the site but I will not deal with them at this time since this
applies to few little websites I visit. I've read up something about
IE and its problems with PNG files and transparency but I don't think
this is the case here. It's just weird how ignoring colors would make
ie ignore loading up certain png files too.

I don't understand why that option would have that effect,
unless it is washing out the color of the images.
E.g. similar to the way specifying a black background with black text
makes text "disappear".

In some cases where incompatible color schemes are used
you can improve their contrast by doing a Select All of the page
(e.g. pressing Ctrl-a). Does that make the "missing" images more apparent?

Not even CTRL+A would help. It would highlight the text but would not
highlight the supposed pictures in which they are located at. Again I
addressed this issue in the previous statement abvove.